When I was looking to meet someone for a work lunch, somewhere between Duluth and Alpharetta, we had settled for Dreamland on Peachtree Parkway.  The next day, we both acknowledged we were merely “settling” (as none of the Atlanta-area franchises can approach the Alabama locations) and I had to find some place else.  So I […]

Sunday after church we stood around talking for a while and, for a change, when we left (at 11:00, instead of 10:15) we could actually discuss “what’s for lunch” without Jo giving me that crazy look.  I remembered having read about Seed Kitchen & Bar in the Cheap Eats issue of Atlanta Magazine in March […]

If the quality of a restaurant was directly converse to it’s level of “shadiness”, House of Ribs (known both as Ms. Betty’s House of Ribs or Bouldercrest House of Ribs, based on where you find the reference point) would be, hands down, the best restaurant in the city. In a trailer that has seen better […]

For the last couple of years, I have seen several raves about Vingenzo’s, in Woodstock.  The gist of all of them was that it was definitely worth the trip OTP (outside the perimeter).  When Friday night rolled around and we had no plans, I made a reso via Open Table and we made the thirty […]

For the last couple of months, a lot of the buzz around Atlanta has been about the opening of the Optimist.  One of my friends and I were talking on the phone and he was telling me that had gone for dinner with his family on the previous Saturday night and had to wait for […]

Some times you drive by a place for years and never stop. Then one day, for whatever reason, you do stop and the food is so amazing that you wonder how you ever lived without it. Or maybe, instead, one day you do stop and you realize that driving by for all those years was […]

This Saturday evening, we were meeting the Coolest Journey Group Ever at the Steak House in Rockmark.   Jo and I had been there a couple of times over the last three years, after hearing some folks talk about it.  In fact, it is like a standing Abbott & Costello routine.  “What’s the name of the […]

Summertime at the office is kind of slow, and as my usual lunch crowd was all gone, today was a day for adventure.   “Crowd” is likely a strong word, as there are never more than three of us.  And three’s not a crowd, unless you’re on a date, or in a sports car or __________ […]

If I had a way to make a blog post sing, this one would sing Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” with the fervor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  The brunch buffet is back at Local Three Kitchen & Bar!  A couple of months back, I spoke of Local Three, praising the food and lamenting the loss of […]

Back in the late 1990s, I ended up traveling to Birmingham often.  And by often, I mean a lot.   Over the course of about three years, I probably drove back and forth between Birmingham and Atlanta at least twenty times.  Every one of those times, I drove by this sign for Golden Rule Bar-B-Q […]